Suhpalacsa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Myrmeleontoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Neuropterida Ordo: Neuroptera Subordo: Myrmeleontiformia Superfamilia: Myrmeleontoidea

Familia: Myrmeleontidae
Subfamilia: Ascalaphinae
Tribus: Ascalaphini
Genus: Suhpalacsa
S. abdominalis – .. S. flavipes – .. S. umbratus

(Note: Original description says the genus name is an anagram of Ascalaphus, technically a semordnilap).

Name

Suhpalacsa Lefebvre, 1842 7

Type species: Ascalaphus flavipes Leach, 1814 48, by subsequent designation.

Gender: masculine (Note: Several later authors have treated the genus as feminine. The genus has no grammatical gender from either its word-origin nor was originally specified, hence such cases ending in -a can lead to the conclusion that the gender is feminine. However, the gender can be interpreted as masculine from "its combination with one or more adjectival species-group names of the originally included nominal species" (ICZN 30.2.3).

Synonymy

Suphalasca Hagan, 1866: 373; subsequent amendment, unjustified.

References

Primary references

Dobosz, R.; Levente, Á. 2014: Owlflies of New Caledonia. Suhpalacsa caledon McLachlan, 1871 (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae). Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 206: 267–276. [Not seen] Reference page.
Leach, W.E., 1814. The Zoological Miscellany: being descriptions of new, or interesting animals. Illustrated with coloured figures drawn from nature by R.P. Nodder. Vol. I. 144 pp. + 60 tt. London, E. Nodder & son. BHL Reference page.
Lefebvre, A. 1842. Le genre Ascalaphus Fabr. Magazin de Zoologie, d'anatomie comparée et de paleontologie (F. E. Guèrin-Mènèville) (2) 4: 1–10. BHL Reference page.
Hagen, H.A. 1866. Hemerobidarum synopsis synonymica. Entomologische Zeitung 27: 369–462. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

New, T.R. 1984. Revision of the Australian Ascalaphidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 32(100): 1–86. PDF Reference page.

Links

BHL bibliography
Suhpalacsa – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Suhpalacsa.
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